At my best buy, the rep told us they only got one Station to set up. They expect low numbers that turned out to be completely wrong. There was up around 200 people in line at any time before 40 minutes till 8pm.

Rep told me they were completely unprepared for the event turnout numbers.

A best buy employee also talked about how Microsoft and Sony have contracts with them to limit competitor demo stations allowed in different stores.

Also in another thread I saw how a Microsoft employee visited a best buy to talk about the Xbox One.

The same thing happened to me where a dude in a Grey-white shirt showed up and asked why everyone was in line. We said Wii U. He said Why?! Why not just go pre-order the Xbox One. He talked about the Xbox One and started to talk to others in line.

People in line told him to leave them alone. He didn't wear a Microsoft t-shirt though.w

It comes off as trying to crash Nintendo's party.
It doesn't really matter, though, because anyone interested in whatever console probably won't be convinced otherwise.
I would have told the guy that I was buying both of the consoles. There's no problem with that.

Microsoft's attempts to be the most shameless and pathetic company possible are an endless source of entertainment.

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Microsoft's attempts to be the most shameless and pathetic company possible are an endless source of entertainment.

Eh Only their Xbox stuff is bad. Even that's arguable when you look at the fact that while the console will fail horribly the One is way ahead of time. Microsoft has had success in positioning other parts of its business as more services and they're attempting to do it for games. Its going to fail horribly but sadly the Xbox One future is going to happen sooner or later. Its probably the the Gen after Wii U/One/PS4.

Games are the only main tech/entertainment market that hasn't made the jump too being a mostly digital service. Thought the 24 hour limit makes no sense as other Microsoft software products don't so it. If they got rid of that time limit I'd be happy to buy a one day one and go all digital.

Wow, that's sad. It's like MS is that poor awkward kid that wants everyone to be their friend, yet can't quite figure out that it takes more than just walking up to someone and asking them to be best friends.

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I heard these reports as well, it is extremely unprofessional of Microsoft to be doing this; if they want people to pre-order their new console then they should have created an attractive proposition for their customers not come around and trash a competitors product. Nintendo can sue Microsoft for conducting illegal anti-competitive business practices.

This didn't happen at the Best Buy event I went to, but I wouldn't be surprised of such a thing. If this guy really was an undercover Microsoft worker infiltrating a Wii U event, then that's even worse than a full-blown representative coming to crash the party. That's just being sneaky.